In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.
For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.
But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the Lord made this pronouncement against him:
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.